Details: Instruction and skills review for this CERT Refresher 'Basic Search & Rescue Methods' will focus on reviewing:

• The (3) Separate Operations of Search & Rescue:

Size-up: Using 9-step, continual model
Search: Locating victims and documenting
Rescue: Extricating victims

• The CERT Search & Rescue Objective is to safely rescue the greatest number in the shortest amount of time.
• CERT Safety: Keeping the Rescuer Safe

This training will focus on organizing teams, ICS orgainzation, conducting scene size-up, safely and systematic searching of interior and exterior areas to locate and potentially remove victims and documention.

For additional information please visit the Santa Clara County Fire Department web site at: www.SCCFD.org

Important: Please bring your CERT Identification Badge/Card, Personal Protective Equipment, and a flashlight. You must be a CERT Volunteer with one of the Cities or Towns in County Fire Jurisdiction to attend the CERT Refresher Class.